List of CSTE/APHL Meetings

APHL/CSTE Coordination Meetings

CSTE/APHL Data Modernization Monthly Checkpoint

CSTE/APHL Leadership Monthly Meeting

CSTE Workgroups & Committees

These workgroups and/or committees might benefit from having an APHL liaison join to listen in or provide updates.

CSTE ELR National Call

CSTE Electronic Laboratory Electronic Laboratory and Disease Reporting Subcommittee (ELDRS)

CSTE Data Standards Workgroup (DSWG)

CSTE Partners Network (Chronic Disease)

CSTE Surveillance Informatics Subcommittee

CSTE NBS Community of Practice (launching soon)

APHL Workgroups & Committees

These workgroups and/or committees might benefit from having an CSTE liaison join to listen in or provide updates.

APHL Rhapsody User Group

APHL Open ELR Call

20250110 CSTE / APHL Monthly Checkpoint

Introductions

• Vanessa and Mel, APHL Policy Champions

Workgroups, User Groups, Conferences, Oh My!

• CSTE

• APHL

• Conferences

2025 Activities and Priorities

• Data Modernization Activities

  • Too much and not enough

  • Careful to not be redundant

  • Data Modernization Workgroup

    • 2x/monthly, 1x with CDC

    • 1x w/ CDC:

      • Small group intentionally

      • SMEs who can help advise and inform your plans

      • (Lab representation?)

      • Heather S. is CDC contact

    • 2x month

      • Strategy

      • Peer-to-peer exchange on technologies

      • Jurisdictional leaders and their conversations and strategy

      • 20-30p from different jurisdictions, no laboratorians

      • Data Modernization Summit in 2023 and 2024

      • We’d love to see report when done

      • Core Data Functions Report: What are the core essential functions that PHA needs to be able to accomplish?

        • Labs are referred to tangentially

• NBS CoP

  • Is launching!

  • Would be helpful to hear more about NBS TA that APHL delivers

• There’s a DMI TA call - CDC, APHL, other partners

  • To vet TA requests and what the workstream should be

  • Brooke and Vanessa

• ELC Meetings

• TEFCA

• eCR

• FHIR

The CoAgs

• CSTE – what year are you in?

• APHL – due March!!

o   What technical assistance, informatics support do PHAs need?

Policy & Standards

• HTI-2 (and its spawn)

• JPHIT

• Mel and Becky need to connect on Policy stuff

Implementation Centers

• Megan is hiring new CSTE staffer, supported by ASTHO PHIG funding; involve that person in TA conversations

• APHL has been involved in meetings, too; still trying to figure out what TA will look like

APHL/CSTE Meetings - what are the meetings?

ELDRS

12/18/24

Gillian Haney presented on minimum lab data necessary "MDN"

• CSTE was approached by APHL to get started last year and formed a workgroup in Spring 2024; before DSWG took on lab core elements

• GH reviewed list with colleagues

• Focus is on test orders only; no authoritative force, but having written guidelines can encourage HCOs to include the MDN in their test orders.

• Demographics; Ordering information; "Lab"; "Epi" elements - big categories

• Riki was involved in compiling this list

• Next step: CSTE and APHL will put together guidance for HCOs

CMS reviewed requirements and exemptions and answered questions about the CMS Promoting Interoperability Program

• Recurring question: who's responsible for confirming system meets specs, is it the vendor or the PHA?

• CMS requires vendors meet validation requirements, but what is "validation"? And how involved is the PHA in validation of public health reporting? Strictly speaking, PHA doesn't need to be involved in this validation or approve the validation. And vendor doesn't ever have to graduate from test system to production. These are all known problems that are being addressed.